“We want to open the holy door of our hearts to live the Jubilee, this year of grace that is given to us, as best as we can, and to make our Church more missionary and more welcoming, as the national Synodal Way asks us to do”. The Presidency of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI) sent this message of good wishes to Pope Francis on the occasion of his 88th birthday. Citing the encyclical “Dilexit nos”, which is “a real compass for our world that seems to have lost its course, increasingly at the mercy of the storms of violence, wars, cynicism and indifference”, the CEI commits itself “to return to the essence, to rediscover the driving force of good that flows from our hearts”, and “to learn from Christ, God who has chosen the tenderness and fragility of a child to ‘reinvent love’ where the capacity to love is overwhelmed by individualism, wickedness and contempt”. “We want to listen to the heartbeat of our people, who sometimes struggle to find reasons to move forward and continue to hope. We want to remember, that is, ‘to keep in our hearts’, all those who are marginalised, who have no voice, who experience loneliness, despair, suffering”, the message concludes.